Salvation

just throwing this up there, in case anyone didn't know, Judas is a reference to the man who betrayed the man known as jesus christ, and handed him over to pontious pilate, who had him crucified, after the crowd asked him to do it. It could be a reference to him being betrayed by a friend, possibly drug related?

Judas is an allusion to the devil being the closest human to the devil. so it only makes since to use him in the devils place. and cope's saying that no matter what he will never sell out and give up. he has his salvation in the form of his music in a literal and figurative since. afterall it was his guitar he pulled out and started playing when judas was shooting at him

I think this song could be about how the music industry treats musicians. I love this song its so freaking catchy!

Great comments. You can definitely see Cope's attitude towards the music industry in this. Definitely think "he'd been down in georgia for a while" is coming from the song the devil went down to georgia, dactownwigga mentioned that already. Basically a label executive is portrayed as the devil/judas driving a porsche "944" he bought with the "soul of the blonde headed kid with a left handed guitar." I think this is a clear reference to Kurt Cobain, bedxtoxsquaresx mentioned this as well. "sign the dotted line" is again a glimpse into how Cope feels about getting involved with record labels and his perception of them. The rest of the song I think still references Cobain's death and how he "let the smack" get to him which ended up killing him but Cope didn't "let the smack get to" him so now he has to deal with the record label. I think here he might be saying the drug addiction of music artists is coming from having to deal with record labels. The rest of the song deals with two different things. One describes the consequences of dealing with record labels: the record label persona found Cope's girl and "fucked her down," later he shooting for Cope's soul with 3 golden bullets which I think goes back to the Cobain reference earlier. And getting shot in the eye and losing the first born are examples of things that you can lose, eye sight and maybe having kids or something like that. The second theme that he writes about is doing what you love since at the end he kept playing his guitar out of tune and he basically stuck it out since he loved doing music. But the most confusing thing is why this song is about salvation. Maybe its the doing what you love that is the salvation but I still haven't figured that or the put the gun down parts out, and I feel like they're the most important.

This song is pretty self explanatory, I think it means to never quit doing what you love to do just because times get rough

"He drove a 944, He bought with the soul, Of a blonde-headed kid, With a left-handed guitar' I'm pretty sure that line is talking about kurt cobain.

there's something about this song. Thanks to bendxtoxsquaresx for clarifying the mentioned line. Did he really lose the life of his first born, as mentioned in the third verse?

from the lyrics, i feel like this song is about a battle with drugs, and the way that you can lose yourself (your soul) to the drugs. and i think that music was what helped him stay sane.

my favorite citizen cope song. it's really relaxing and it makes you think.

my favorite citizen cope song. it's really relaxing and it makes you think.